Work may resume on some of China’s new nuclear plants, a Chinese regulatory official has said.On Thursday Bloomberg quoted China Nuclear Energy Association vice secretary general Xu Yuming as saying projects already under construction may restart following government delays imposed following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi accident. He said approvals for additional reactors, though, are unlikely for the remainder of this year.China is currently the world leader in reactor construction, with more than two dozen plants under construction. Chinese energy plans have called for as much as a 600 percent increase in nuclear generation, to 60 gigawatts by 2020, according to the World Nuclear Association. It remains unclear how a new law governing nuclear power expected to be written next year will affect the industry.
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